In this week’s episode, we catch up with Christos Makridis, the CTO/COO and co-founder of the Web3 multimedia startup Living Opera, to discuss how writing can be an approach to understanding the world, human capital, how NFTs and music are such a natural fit, the way Living Opera is working to support emerging opera musicians, the Magic Mozart NFT project, AI’s potential role in the arts, and the possibility of Web3 becoming a space for the common good. Christos Makridis is the CTO/COO and co-founder of Living Opera, a web3 multimedia startup that brings together classical music and blockchain technologies to produce transformative experiences. Christos holds academic appointments at Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and other academic and policy institutions, and has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 150 news stories in the press. He holds doctorates in economics and management science & engineering from Stanford University.